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Tag Name "Duty" (1770)

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Duty grows everywhere--like children, like grass.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Duty is the great business of a sea officer all private considerations must give way to it, however painful it may be.
Horatio Nelson
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Duty is one and invariable it requires no impossibilities, nor can it ever be disregarded with impunity.
Henry David Thoreau
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Duty never stopped anyone from following their dreams.
Paulo Coelho
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Duty, then is the sublimest word in our language. Do your duty in all things. You cannot do more you should never wish to do less.
Robert E. Lee
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Duty is the sublimest work in the English language.
Robert E. Lee
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Duty--the command of heaven, the eldest voice of God.
Charles Kingsley
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Duty has a trick of behaving unexpectedly -- something like a heavy friend whom we have amiably asked to visit us, and who breaks his leg within our gates.
George Eliot
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Duty doesn't need to call it only needs to whisper. And if you heed the call, no matter what happens, you have no need for regret. Odd Thomas
Dean Koontz
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Duty reaches down the ages in its effects, and into eternity and when the man goes about it resolutely, it seems to me now as though his footsteps were echoing beyond the stars, though only heard faintly in the atmosphere of this world.
William Mountford
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Duty is that mode of action on the part of the individual which constitutes the best possible application of his capacity to the general benefit.
William Godwin
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Duty without love is deplorable. Duty with love is desirable. Love without duty is Divine.
Sathya Sai Baba
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Duty is the demand of the hour.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Duty is duty, conscience is conscience, right is right, and wrong is wrong, whatever sized type they may be printed in. Large or small are not words for the vocabulary of conscience.
Alexander MacLaren
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Duty does not consist in suffering everything, but in suffering everything for duty. Sometimes, indeed, it is our duty not to suffer.
Alexandre Vinet
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Duty, though set about by thorns, may still be made a staff supporting even while it tortures. Cast it away, and, like the prophet's wand, it changes to a snake.
Douglas William Jerrold
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Duty - that which sternly impels us in the direction of profit, along the line of desire.
Ambrose Bierce
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Duty is ours and events are God's.
Angelina Grimke
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Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical.
John Fowles
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Duty and to-day are ours results and futurity belong to God.
Horace Greeley
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Duty is what no-one else will do at the moment.
Penelope Fitzgerald
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Duty cannot exist without faith
Benjamin Disraeli
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Duty should be a byproduct.
Brenda Ueland
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Duty is heavier than a mountain, Dai Shan.' That time, Lan did flinch. How long had it been since someone had been able to do that to him with mere words? He remembered teaching that same concept to a youth out of the Two Rivers. A sheepherder, innocent of the world, fearful of the fate laid out before him by the Pattern.
Robert Jordan
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